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3 Steps Data is a Data Management as a Service solution that meets the need for controlled, auditable data movement between people, organizations and systems, while supporting data security and compliance requirements, out-of-the-box, without the need for expensive, specialized resources.Data breaches and noncompliance have severe consequences. At scale, 3 Steps Data solves the problems inherent in:* Commercial/business and security/compliance standards not being met;* Multi-jurisdictional commercial, business and security governance, compliance and data storage requirements and regulations;* Decentralised data;* Multi format data conversion and extraction;* Integrating with existing workflows using UI and/or APIs;* Costly, convoluted and time consuming data preparation for secure sharing and AI/ML training.Easy to use and secure by design, 3 Steps Data has been built for today’s and tomorrow’s Zero-Trust, data-driven world, where data must work together across departmental, organizational and geographical boundaries.For further information and/or to request an invitation to participate in the 3 Steps Data beta release, contact us at: support@3stepsdata.com

Transforming the World of Data with Next Generation Data-first Technology and Data Strategy Consulting:FlatWorld Integration is Deep-Tech firm, which is the home of Fl@World, Fl@World: the all-in-one, secure, simple to use, permission-based, point-to-point, data integration, sharing and governance platform.What if you could build agile, data-driven solutions incredibly quickly and extremely securely… What if you could mitigate data compliance, security and cyber security at scale… and what if you could feed your integrated data to wherever its needed, however its needed, without the need for expensive experts? With Fl@World’s agile data infrastructure, you can. FlatWorld Integration also offers expert data strategy consulting to enable your organisation to align internal and external data to your Strategic Business Vision, Plan and Growth Drivers and facilitate data-first technology solutions.

The aim of the CyAN association is to strengthen cybersecurity and to fight against cybercrime through a multi-disciplinary approach based on mutual trust and on complementarity of profiles and experiences of its members.

KimMic International Pty Ltd is the parent company of FlatWorld Integration Pty Ltd., which is the implementation company for Fl@World® technology. Designed and developed by the KimMic team, Fl@World is game-changing, out-of-the-box, enabling technology in action.KimMic specializes in disruptive approaches and the development of robust, transformational technologies and leading edge innovations for the global Digital, Attention and Collaboration Economies (DACE) and Global Value Chains (GVC).Fl@World can be licensed for use and is available for distribution through channel partners/licensors. Please contact us for further information.

The Netherlands

Business: (Part of the Liberty Media Group) Business-to-Consumer Cable TV, Internet, mobile telephony, telephony. Business-to-Business mobile telephony, telephony and internet/data servicesPrimary Challenges:- To implement business solutions in a complex and immature, rapid growth business environment in a time-sensitive, extremely completive market.- Troubleshoot-and-fix failing projects.Leadership Actions and Significant Results:- Turned-around and successfully delivered the implementation of business critical functionality. Program managed the implementation cost controls and tracking, the subsequent down-sizing of the project team by 90%, the re-alignment and engagement of expectations/deliverables with the business, the forming of a new project team and the subsequent successful delivery. Prior to engagement the project was two years late and 1.5 million Euros overspent. Subsequent to engagement, the project was delivered in four months at a cost of 60 thousand Euros. - Program managed the delivery of a Salesforce.com implementation that replaced six legacy systems, resulting in streamlined service delivery and customer service.- Program managed the delivery of IT systems to support a market-leading high-speed internet product and a HDTV product. Both were delivered faster than the company’s competitors, establishing a market lead.- Program managed the delivery of IT systems to support a nation-wide rollout of a Customer Service Representative (CSR) service-scripting tool that enabled marketing/product campaigns to be implemented as automated CSR instructions (e.g. cross-sell/up-sell) quickly and easily. This provided a significant uplift in revenues.

The Netherlands

Shell International’s Knowledge Management, Innovation and Design (KID) manages a budget of EUR200M/annum supporting world wide access to knowledge management applications from all Shell affiliated entities.Primary Challenges:- To allow multi-discipline and multicultural knowledge sharing across Shell’s hundreds of businesses, joint ventures and third parties, while taking into consideration security, business agreements, and technology restrictions between nationalities.- To provide global 24/7 support for the Knowledge Management portfolio of applications, accessed by over 25,000 users in all parts of the world.- To improve the customer experience and global knowledge sharing through the development and implementation of a company-wide global identity management system.- To enable the understanding of user behavior and business penetration across of the Knowledge Management portfolio of applications through the development and implementation of a company-wide executive and management reporting system.Leadership Actions and Significant Results:- Successful delivery of major business turn-around through the implementation of critical Knowledge Management initiatives within two months, following numerous failed attempts and significant budget overruns by previous teams.- Developed and implemented the off-shoring strategy for all Knowledge Management Help Desk and technical support activities. Outsourced these services into a global 24/7 help desk with facilities managed out of India and Kuala Lumpur. - Program managed the delivery of a global identity management and access control system, spanning 300 independent companies, and incorporating executive and management reporting systems to ensure compliance with corporate governance and enable understanding of user behavior and penetration across the Shell businesses.Additional Focus and Contributions: - Key contributor to the Shell Corporate Intranet task force and post implementation review process.

The Netherlands/Australia

Business: Lateral Advantage offers carrier grade, high performance data processing and billing softwarePrimary Challenges:- To identify a product and/or go-to market gap with existing billing solution providers with a view to establish a new start-up venture. Leadership Actions and Significant Results:- Developed product roadmap and go-to-market strategy for Lateral Advantage product lines.- Identified market gap through the exploitation and integration of open source software setting a market pricing model unmatched by incumbent providers.- Established a global internet-based marketing model that resulted in subsequent sales throughout Asia for US based telecommunication providers. Additional Focus and Contributions:- Established software development processes, quality assurance and performance testing processes to ensure fit-for-purpose of the Lateral Advantage application suite.- Chief architect providing overall software development approach, framework, coding and documentation standards.

Germany / Uk

Business: Revenue assurance specialists for large telecommunications companies such as Deutche Telekom (Germany), France Telecom (France) and Energis (UK).Primary Challenges- Sell consultancy services to Energis (UK). - Restructure Energis’ revenue assurance department.- Re-engineer Energis’ revenue assurance processes to enable a successful audit to be undertaken by KPMG and the governmental watchdog.- Recover any revenue identified during the re-engineering.Leadership Actions and Significant Results:- Sold premium consultancy services to Energis to restructure their revenue assurance department, after performing a two-week in-depth analysis of the company’s capability and performance against best practices.- Took over the running of the department for the duration of the engagement, mentored a new-hire to take over the running of the department and successfully handed the department back to the company.- Restructured the department and roles/accountabilities. - Restructured the Switch-To-Bill and Sales-To-Cash revenue assurance processes.- Recovered 10+ Million GBP of unbilled revenue during the restructuring process.- Successfully audited by KPMG and the governmental watchdog.Additional Focus and Contributions:- Designed and Program managed the replacement of existing systems.- Defined revenue assurance controls to be used for a migration project of the core billing system.

Australia

Business: Very large data warehousing/data mining software and services, primarily for tier one and two companies.

Australia

Business: A startup venture that manufactured convergent billing and customer care systems for the global telecommunications industry (sold to Siemens in 1999).

Australia

Business: The largest telecommunications carrier in Australia.